Slackware, Xfree 4.0.1, tvcard and DGA. Heeelp!

[Letalis]

Installed slack last night since I got tired of the unstable RH7. Now the problem is that I cant get my tv-card that worked really good in
RH7 to work... i downloaded the 2.4.0-test12 kernel and X 4.0.1 since thats whats got it to work in RH but it keeps saying that there is no DGA support available in X. And i havent founf hardly any documentation on dga even at the Xfree86 homepage... what do I do to enable DGA?

[Ig0r]

as root, edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
There should be a section near the top called "Module". Paste what is in that section.
There is probably a module option that is disabling DGA (because in some situations it is unstable, and they want to be better safe than sorry). All you have to do is comment out that option line...

[Letalis]

Actually there is no such line. Is there a way to use the SubSection "extmod" to add DGA support?

[Mikenell]

My XF86Config file has a line in the subsection exmod that is stopping the DGA from loading so I commented that out. Btw, are you compiling XAWTV? If you are or did, did you get this error:

make[1]: bdftopcf: Command not found

?
Its weird cos it compiles as a user but not root. Hmm...
Mikenell

[Letalis]

Actually i found out that the X-server for my graphics-card doesnt allow DGA. But why did it work in RH7?

[Letalis]

fbtv works good now but xawtv refuses to work even with the -nodga option. Heeeelp!